Lin Qi could understand Pelius's current situation. He must have been eating poorly and sleeping badly, all because of that letter.
As the next generation's leader within the military, Pelius could not afford too great a stain on his reputation. Otherwise, the Star Creation Project might run into trouble.
From the outside, the military appeared to be a closed, monolithic environment.
But the military was not actually controlled by just one or two allied families. In reality, it was a ruling class formed by the commanders of many different theaters.
Every theater and military district commander wielded the greatest military authority within his jurisdiction. That authority was difficult for anyone else to shake, because this was the army.
A soldier's duty was to obey orders, and that made the Federal Military an independent and authoritarian place.
For an outsider—or someone at the bottom—to try to shake the orders of those at the top was practically a joke.
The Federal Military allowed soldiers to question their chiefs' orders, but not to refuse to carry them out.
In other words, they could think an order was wrong, but they still had to execute it. Otherwise, they would be taken before a military court.
Under such circumstances, every regional commander was a true "dictator."
And Pelius had the support of several military district commanders, so everyone accepted this outcome on the surface.
But if he accumulated too many negative marks against him, he might very well be abandoned.
Not everyone was willing to let someone with whom they had no close relationship stand above them.
They had never had the opportunity before, but once that opportunity appeared, they would not give it up.
This was also the greatest trouble—and problem—Mr. Truman had left Pelius.
He had not left Lin Qi a letter, and